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This concluding chapter ' is also added to the present Introduction , for the reason
already mentioned regarding the preceding fragment . It was a step my advance
towards romantic composition ; and to preserve the traces of these is in a great ...
This concluding chapter ' is also added to the present Introduction , for the reason
already mentioned regarding the preceding fragment . It was a step my advance
towards romantic composition ; and to preserve the traces of these is in a great ...
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I have already stated elsewhere , that I can render little better reason for chusing
to remain anonymous , than by saying with Shylock , that such was my humour . It
will be observed , that I had not the usual stimulus for desiring personal ...
I have already stated elsewhere , that I can render little better reason for chusing
to remain anonymous , than by saying with Shylock , that such was my humour . It
will be observed , that I had not the usual stimulus for desiring personal ...
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I may perhaps be thought guilty of affectation , should I allege as one reason of
my silence , a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own
literary labours . It is in every case a dangerous intercourse for an author to be ...
I may perhaps be thought guilty of affectation , should I allege as one reason of
my silence , a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own
literary labours . It is in every case a dangerous intercourse for an author to be ...
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If I am asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed , I can only
resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent ;
namely , that the mental organization of the Novelist must be characterised , to
speak ...
If I am asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed , I can only
resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent ;
namely , that the mental organization of the Novelist must be characterised , to
speak ...
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I have some reason to fear that the notes which accompany the tales , as now
published , may be thought too miscellaneous and too egotistical . It may be
some apology for this , that the publication was intended to be posthumous , and
still ...
I have some reason to fear that the notes which accompany the tales , as now
published , may be thought too miscellaneous and too egotistical . It may be
some apology for this , that the publication was intended to be posthumous , and
still ...
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